The Sargent Centre has significant publications in multi-disciplinary areas...an example is Professor George Jackson's paper which has been named as "most cited paper of the last 30 years in Industry and Engineering Chemistry Research.

 

                                                                                           Academics Research InterestsThe Sargent Centre Research Domain and Application Areas       
Professor Claire Adjiman

Professor Claire Adjiman

FREng, CPSE Director, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 6638

Email: c.adjiman@imperial.ac.uk

  • Publications
  • Solvent design
  • Solvent selection
  • Global optimisation
  • Bilevel optimisation
  • Crystal structure prediction
  • Molecular design
  • Process design
  • Fuel cells
  • CO2 capture
 
  • Molecular Systems Engineering
  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning

Professor David Bogle

 

Professor David Bogle

FREng, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 679 7844

Email: d.bogle@ucl.ac.uk

  • Publications
  • Optimisation
  • Controllability
  • Systems Biology
  • Interval
  • Sustainability

 

  • Process and Product Design
  • Modelling and Model Solution Tools
  • Biological Systems Engineering
  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning

 

Professor Nigel Brandon

Professor Nigel Brandon

OBE FREng, Director of the Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI), Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 5704

Email: n.brandon@imperial.ac.uk

 
Dr Benoît Chachuat

Professor Benoît Chachuat

Professor of Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 5594

Email: b.chachuat@imperial.ac.uk

  • Publications
  • Computer-aided process engineering
  • Real-time process optimization
  • Set-theoretic methods in estimation and optimization 
  • Wastewater treatment design and optimal operations
  • Simulation of microalgae culture systems
  • Optimisation of membrane-based systems

 

  • Modelling and Model Solution Tools
  • Environmental Systems Engineering 
  • Chemical Manufacturing Systems
  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning
 Dr Marc Deisenroth

Professor Marc Deisenroth

Professor of Statistical Machine Learning, Department of Computing, Imperial College London

 

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7594 8234

Email: m.deisenroth@imperial.ac.uk

  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning
Dr Vivek Dua

Professor Vivek Dua

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 679 0002

Email: v.dua@ucl.ac.uk

  • Publications 
  • Optimisation under uncertainty
  • Mixed-integer optimisation
  • Model predictive control
  • Parameter estimation
  • Refinery-wide energy optimisation
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Haemodialysis

 

  • Modelling and model solution tools
  • Process and product design
  • Biological systems engineering
  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning

 

Professor Eric Fraga

Professor Eric Fraga

Professor of Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 679 3817

Email: e.fraga@imperial.ac.uk

  • Publications
  • Energy systems design and optimisation
  • Visualisation
  • Multiobjective optimisation
  • Evolutionary programming
  • Adaptive grid methods

 

  • Process and Product Design
  • Modelling and Model Solution Tools
  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning
  • Energy Systems Engineering
  • Chemical Manufacturing Systems

Professor Amparo Galindo

Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 5606

Email: a.galindo@imperial.ac.uk

  • Publications 
  • SAFT
  • Phase behaviour
  • Phase equilibria
  • Molecular model
  • Mie potential
  • Group contribution

 

  • Molecular Systems Engineering

 

 Dr Federico Galvanin

Dr Federico Galvanin

Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44(0)20 7679 3836

Email: f.galvanin@ucl.ac.uk

 
Dr Adam Hawkes

Professor Adam Hawkes

Professor of Energy Systems, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 9300

Email: a.hawkes@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Publications
  • Energy systems modelling
  • Optimisation and design
  • Microgeneration
  • Micro-CHP
  • Microgrid
 
  •  Modelling and Model Solution Tools
Professor George Jackson

Professor George Jackson

Professor of Chemical Physics, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 5640

Email: g.jackson@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Publications
  • Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation
  • SAFT
  • Density Functional Theory
  • Integrated Molecular and Process Design
  • Computer Aided Molecular Design
  • Fluid Phase Equilibria
 
  • Molecular Systems Engineering

Professor Cleo Kontoravdi

Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 6655

Email: cleo.kontoravdi98@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Publications
  • Protein glycosylation
  • Chinese hamster ovary cells
  • Animal cell metabolism
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Global sensitivity analysis
  • Nucleotide sugars
  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • Flux balance analysis
 
  • Biological Systems Engineering
Dr J. Krishnan

Dr J. Krishnan

Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 6633

Email: j.krishnan@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Publications
  • Cellular information processing
  • Systems and synthetic biology
  • Spatial  regulation (or Spatial effects or spatial control)—in fact just Spatial
  • Multisite Phosphorylation
  • Signal transduction
  • Gene regulation
  • Dynamical Systems
  • Systems and control engineering
  • mRNA translation
  • Cell and tissue levels
 
  • Modelling and Model Solution Tools
  • Biological Systems Engineering
Dr Niall MacDowell

Professor Niall Mac Dowell

Professor of Energy and Environmental Technology and Policy, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 9298

Email: n.mac-dowell06@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Publications
  • Dynamic modelling
  • Optimisation
  • Multi-period design
  • Energy systems
  • CO2 capture and storage
  • CCS
  • Low carbon energy
 
  •  Energy systems engineering
Professor Geoffrey C Maitland

Professor Geoffrey C Maitland

FREng, Professor of Energy Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 1830

Email: g.maitland@imperial.ac.uk

  •  Energy systems engineering
 Dr Christos Markides

Professor Christos Markides

Professor of Clean Energy Technologies , Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 1601

Email: c.markides@imperial.ac.uk

 

   
 Dr Luca Mazzei

Professor Luca Mazzei

Professor of Chemical EngineeringDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44(0)20 7679 4328

Email:  l.mazzei@ucl.ac.uk

   
Dr Ruth Misener

Professor Ruth Misener

Professor of Computing, Department of Computing, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0) 20759 41361

Email: r.misener@imperial.ac.uk

  • Publications
  • mixed integer nonlinear optimisation
  • global optimisation
  • numerical software
  • optimisation methods and software
  • bioprocess optimisation

 

 
  • Biological Systems Engineering
  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning
Professor Erich Müller

Professor Erich Müller

Professor of Thermodynamics, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 1569

Email: e.muller@imperial.ac.uk

 
  • Molecular Systems Engineering
Professor Costas C Pantelides

Professor Costas C Pantelides

FREng, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 6622

Email: c.pantelides@imperial.ac.uk

 
Professor Lazaros Papageorgiou

Professor Lazaros Papageorgiou

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 679 2563

Email: l.papageorgiou@ucl.ac.uk

 
Dr Panos Parpas

Dr Panos Parpas

Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7594 8366

Email: p.parpas@imperial.ac.uk

  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning
 Dr Matteo Salvalaglio

Dr Matteo Salvalaglio  

Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 3716

Email: m.salvalaglio@ucl.ac.uk 

 

 


Professor Nilay Shah

Professor of Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 594 6621

Email: n.shah@imperial.ac.uk

  •  Publications
  •  Process optimisation
  • Process design
  • Energy systems engineering
  • Supply chain optimisation
 
  • Supply Chains of the Future
  • Energy Systems Engineering
  • Environmental Systems Engineering

Professor Eva Sørensen

Deputy Head for Education and Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44 (0)207 679 3802

Email: e.sorensen@ucl.ac.uk

  • Publications
  • Distillation
  • Batch distillation
  • Chromatography
  • Separations
  • Bio-separations
  • Modelling
  • Simulation
  • Optimisation
  • Control

 

 
Dr Michail Stamatakis

Professor Michail Stamatakis

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London

Phone: +44(0)20 3108 1128

Email: m.stamatakis@ucl.ac.uk

  • Publications
  • Ab initio
  • Statistical mechanics
  • Monte Carlo
  • Adsorption
  • Spillover
  • (Heterogeneous) Catalysis
  • Graph theoretic methods
  • (Sub-)Nanoscale
  • Noble Metal
  • Bimetallic Alloy
 
Dr Wolfram Wiesemann

Dr Wolfram Wiesemann

Associate Professor of Management Science and Operations; Fellow of the KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics, Imperial College London

Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 9150

Email: ww@imperial.ac.uk

  •  Publications 
  • Robust Optimisation
  • Stochastic Programming
  • Supply Chain Design
  • Operations Management
 
  •  Supply Chain Design
  • Computational Optimisation and Machine Learning